MrBrown

extra beta https://news.blizzard.com/en-gb/diablo4/23938755/help-us-gear-up-for-launch-during-the-diablo-iv-server-slam

I recommend using the standard array or point buy, if you want a reasonable challenge. If you just set the stats at what you want it gets pretty easy.

Started playing Diablo3 again, after the D4 beta ended. Needed an action game, because everything else I'm playing is not very actiony, I think it'll hold me over until D4 comes out.

So apparently by buying one of the pricier Diablo 4 editions, you get access to the game 4 days earlier than people who buy the regular edition. Dunno if companies do that regularly these days, but what a stroke of genius! You get to let people in stages instead of all at once which is better for server load, AND they pay for it!

Done with D4 beta for now. Seems good. Will probably buy the game when it releases, unless something weird comes up. Feels more like a typical RPG with the huge number of side quests.

I've played Rogue and Necro on D4 so far, Necro is way easier. But yeah, summoners are hard to balance.

Played a few hours of D4. Dunno why all these diablo-likes insists on having really slow starts. It's ok one time, but if I have to level all future characters like this, I just might not. Cutscenes are loooong. Got bored and skipped all I've come across so far. Otherwise seems quite similar to D3. Just early game though, dunno how it'll end up.

Isn't D4 online in the same way D:Immortal is, that there's always other players in the areas?

Diablo 4 closed beta started. Hope they fix some of these bugs before release.

Sounds like they haven't fixed much in the DLC since release. Sad.

Never played it like that, always played it seriously, as co-op, no saboteurs.

Barotrauma is leaving early access on 13th of March. Recommend it, as a co-op game. https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/602960/view/3681167057387289237?l=english

Outer Worlds is becoming more and more like Skyrim.

Dropped FF7 Remake at chapter 14. Got too boring. Mechanics are fine, story is a bore.

Pretty standard stuff for Valheim, for instance.

This is what AI was created for

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/03/tech/activision-blizzard-sec/

My bugbear with Steam is you can't remove Big Picture -mode from menus, so I occasionally click on it and then get annoyed I have to find out how to close it.

45 hours and Skyhold means you're taking it reaaallllyyy slow.

https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1439-ogl-1-0a-creative-commons

I found the most stress-free way to play DA:I was to control a sword&shield warrior tanking everything, and have everyone else be ranged with the AI handling them. Other party compositions are viable, but require more micro management, or specific kind of items to be effective.